Statewide summit for professionals will be held next week

6:19 PM,
Jun. 13, 2014

J.B. Van Hollen

Written by

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
For Gannett Central Wisconsin Media

Domestic violence continues to take the lives of many Wisconsin residents. A recent report from End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin indicates that a person in killed in a domestic violence-related incident on average once a week in the state. For each of these victims, there are thousands of other victims for whom violence or the threat of violence is an everyday reality.

Wisconsin's law enforcement officers respond to tens of thousands of domestic violence calls each year. Statistics from 2012 show that 28,729 domestic abuse incidentswere reported to law enforcement and referred to ...